Americans have been moving from high-tax states to low-tax states for a long time, but the trend has become more acute since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in 2020. The increasing availability of ...

A new national survey conducted by the Manhattan Institute examines Americans’ attitudes toward the welfare state thirty years after President Bill Clinton’s landmark welfare reform, as well as the ...

Many technologies help us do one specific thing: a hammer and a boat, for example, have an obvious function. Other technologies are general-purpose and can be put to many uses: electricity, oil, and ...

On May 28, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of a Charter Revision Commission (CRC), called the Commission on Government Efficiency, with a mandate to make government work better.[1] The CRC ...

Debates about the administrative state often focus on formal rulemaking: the scope of agency discretion, the role of cost-benefit analysis, and the intensity of judicial review. These debates are ...

Yi Fang Chen’s son certainly had the grades to get into New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School. Just one problem: He’s the wrong race. Chen’s son was the victim of the city’s Discovery ...

A recent Pew Research Center poll shows that seven in 10 Americans now believe that higher education is headed in the wrong direction—a view that has been increasing rapidly in recent years.[1] ...

In New York City, human-services contractors, mostly nonprofit organizations, deliver a vast array of services to residents. These services, ranging from homeless shelters to senior care, come at an ...

New York State’s revenue-raising strategy since the Great Recession could be summed up by a frequent chant at then-candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign rallies: “Tax the Rich!” Starting in 2009, with a ...

New York City’s special-education system looks very different today from the way it did a decade ago. For the 2026 fiscal year, 2.15% of the Department of Education’s entire budget was approved for ...

In an interview for the 2022 documentary What Is a Woman,[1] psychologist and women’s studies scholar Patrick Grzanka told conservative commentator and provocateur Matt Walsh that he was “really ...

Congress is considering renewing an expansion of the Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC), which provides federal subsidies for households to buy health insurance from the individual market. Individuals ...